Professional Development

Photoshop ACA Jumpstart: Zero to Hero

Description

Zero to Photoshop Hero in just 5 days and become an Adobe Certified Associate(ACA)

This class provides you with the concepts and skills to use Adobe Photoshop effectively. You get hands-on practice working with basic through advanced techniques to get the most out of your experience. You will learn layer basics, photo retouching and image editing. Whether you are a designer, illustrator, photographer, video artist, webmaster or just a beginner, Photoshop offers you many opportunities to make your images look great.

You will be prepared for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam at the end of this course.

Get recognised for the new skills you’ve just gained: Get Certified!

Earn your Green and then Red Belt in Adobe Photoshop

Prerequisites

This class is for all levels of Photoshop users. From complete novices to seasoned users who may wish to take this class in to rid themselves of bad Photoshop habits. Target customers are Advertising Agencies, Marketing Agencies, Production Houses, or departments that work in such disciplines within larger organisations.

Assumed Knowledge

Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computers operating system. For example,you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CD and other media.

Skills

Enhance an image by removing colour cast

Compensate for flash lightning and red eyes

Increase/Decrease the contrast and brightness of your artwork

Create simple compositions by blending images together or selecting only parts of an image

Use colour in Photoshop effectively

Create type and produce simple adverts

Output an artwork for web

Produce advanced face retouching & manipulation techniques

Use colour in Photoshop effectively

Maximise the potential of Photoshop Brush engines

Work with advanced compositions

You will also be prepared for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exams in Photoshop. Get recognised for the skills you’ve just gained: Get Certified!

Earn your Yellow and then Green Belt in Adobe Photoshop

Course Content

Managing the Adobe Photoshop Environment

Exploring default Workspace & Bridge

Introduction to the Toolbar

Palette management & Screen real estate

History Palette & Undoing Actions

Navigation shortcuts

Working with Selections

Creating Selections using Magic Wand

Adjusting Selections

Quick Selection and Lasso tools

Combining Selection tools for complex objects

Saving and Reloading a Selection

Enhancing an Image

Using Levels and Curves

Compensate for flash with Shadow & Highlight

Variations to quickly decide about a colour cast

Hue & Saturation controls

Blurring and sharpening using Filters

Painting and Retouching Images

Digital darkroom techniques

Clone Stamp and Heal tools

Creating, saving and loading custom colours

Painting with Paintbrush, Pencil or Paint Bucket tool

Introduction to Gradients and painting with Gradients

Working with Quick Mask mode & Layer Masks

Working with Layers

Importing images, Layers and Selections

Transforming Layer Objects & using the Smart Objects

Starting to build layered compositions

Applying Transparency

Basic Blending Modes

Other goodies as Text Layers, Adjustment Layers and Layer Styles

Outputting your artwork

Colour modes, Resolution and Image Size

Cropping an image Vs Extending the Canvas

File formats & optimizing artwork for Web

Managing the Adobe Photoshop Environment

Working with Tool Presets

Using Layer Comps for layouts

Exploring default Preferences

Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

Camera Raw files functionality

Colour management

Actions, Droplets & Batch processing

Advanced Image Adjustments

Face Retouch & Manipulation

Sharpening with Lab Mode

Greyscale with Black & White Conversion

Advanced effects with Gradient map

Photo Filters

Creating Panoramic images with Photomerge

Affect Perspective using Vanishing Point

Advanced Painting & Retouching

Exploring the Brush Engine and creating custom Brushes

Working with Patterns

Using Smart Filters

Liquify Techniques

Lighting effects and 3D Textures

Advanced Layer Compositions

Replace colour & Colour Range vs Extract

Selecting Pixels using Paths

Advanced Masking with Calculations

Advanced use of Blending Modes

Knockouts and Clipping Masks

Type on a Path

Advanced Outputting features

Animated bitmaps

Combining Photoshop and Illustrator

Creating Multi Package

Getting It Right In Print

Adobe Certification Prep and ACA Exam day

Take Practice exam

Work through exam preparation sheet

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Photoshop ACA Exam

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